Momo

Berkley, pls just reject my ARC request and put me out of my misery. Every day i don't get that "nope" email is another day in hope I might actually get it.

Oh boy oh boy I hope the two people in front of me want to be friends! (Honestly, I have never gone to a movie solo before, I am weirdly nervous)

I need to stop getting mad at the rom coms for not having the blood and angst quotient i want in my fiction and just...stop reading rom coms. It is not them. It's me.

If TikTok actually gets banhammered, does that mean those hideous "TikTok Sensation!" covers are going away? Does that mean publishing will actually have to have marketing plans? Does that mean we get less bad book takes from braindead Zoomers? How awful~

THOSE EYES!

Leo rising at 0°!

I mean, I know Japan ADORES "Anne", but I dunno what's the bigger shocker when it comes to reviving long-dormant properties, this or "Hana-Kimi."

"Glicked" is old news. "Babyratu" will be the truly insane double feature this Christmas.

If you see this post a vampire and pass it on.

The Death of Shame by Onyx Shadowmist S 825| One day, when his friend Onyx was cooped up once again working his art, spellcaster Noah Fort had an idea. What if one could simply conjure art with magic? It could be efficient, requiring no skill, and inspired by existing paintings. Noah got to work. producing hundreds of spell-generated paintings in a day, bottling his spells to sell. They seemed to be works of great value. But upon closer inspection, they looked off. lacking any substance or vision. But neither Noah, nor his customers, knew enough about art to tell. Soon, Noah's business took off. Homes filled with spell-generated paintings. "Artists" everywhere were posting them on Social Bunny, or even selling them for commissions under false pretenses. Noah's business failed, however, when Sims got better at identifying these falsified works and saw them as uncool. Meanwhile, Onyx finished his year-long project, a hauntingly beautiful set of paintings inspired by his hometown, Ravenwood. Years later, Onyx's paintings are heralded as some of the finest work of the recent century. Yet no one could remember Noah's work, or that of his customers. No amount of magic or efficiency can replace the value of a Sim with passion. Environment: 4 Heirloom Eligible

the sims team at EA has had ENOUGH of this ai bullshit i fear

Oh my god it's worse than I imagined. *Clapping hands gleefully*

I say this gently and with love in my heart: Have y'all ever actually watched a Passionflix movie all the way through? This was never going to be GOOD. "CW-grade cheesefest" is probably the absolute best case scenario.

Tfw when a book is beautifully written, but you find its worldview and themes SO INCREDIBLY rancid. Sorry, "The Crane Husband.*" It's... definitely me.💙📚

Instead of a new job, I get... A $2000 television? I won't turn down Amazon 's fuckup, but I wanted my bathmat.

Man, as soon as BlueSky lets me get notifs when specific people post like the bird app does, I think I might just finally take the leap

Am I stupid, or is this an info leak? The awards don't start for another 2 hours and the article only mentions a nomination...

#Romancelandia, I have a question. As I get deeper in the weeds of plotting this series, I am leaning towards killing some characters. Can I still sell it as a romantasy if a secondary romantic couple don't get an HEA, but the MMC and MFC do? Or does romance mean HEAs for EVERYONE?

I heard somewhere the publishing grind burnt her out, so she went and started another career. It's happened to so many authors i enjoy, sadly. (Meredith Duran, I miss you still!)

No, and that would be absolutely verboten under line rules. Love Inspired/inspies in general target the evangelical crowd that consider queerness a sin that can be prayed out of you.

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My favorite performance of my favorite carol.

I thought I could get through the entire Yule season without hearing the cursed synthesizer plinking of "Wonderful Christmastime." Even turned my Christmas station to "Classical Christmas" to decrease chances. Today, with 36 or so hours to go, I get hit w/ a CHORAL VERSION. FML.

Watching family friends make hamentaschen with Earl Grey apricot filling as part of their Christmas cookie lineup warms my heart. The embodiment of "A little confused, but has the spirit" right there.

A supposed Quora question: "Atheists, imagine you're going skydiving with a Christian baby. Suddenly the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you renounced atheism and accept Jesus as your lord and savior. What would you do?"

Given the very specific circumstances, I'd either check to see if I'm on drugs or if the baby is on drugs and if the latter find out where I could get some because clearly those are some gooooood drugs.

The fact that they're bringing up Naruto in the year of our Lord 2023...

I finished on the trainwreck factor alone, trust.

The funeral Heroine attends at story beginning is her own, thanks to the magic of unreliable narration. The letters are from Hero trying to help her remember that she's dead. And then the ending is the two of them torturing her mentally ill ex in the psycho ward for all eternity. Hurrah! 2/2

Detailed spoilers, might be multiple comments: Hero and Heroine turn out to both be ghosts, having been killed by Heroine's schizo husband during an episode. Their murder is graphically flashed back to at book's end with NO warning that that was coming. 1/?

TL:DR: It's an HEA in the right frame of mind, but...uh.... Detailed spoilers in a second reply shortly.

If I wasn't side eyeing Bramble Romance/Tor before now, I definitely am after they announced "Pen Pal" as part of the lineup without even trying to hint at how...uh, very unique the ending is.

#Romancelandia

Over on Threads, they’re debating “why Bluesky is dying,” which is very funny to me. It’s the only social media site that doesn’t make me want to plug in a toaster while taking a bath.